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The second section describes prior experiences NCES has had with reporting district-level results through the Trial District Assessment in 1996 and the reporting of results for naturally occurring districts in 1998. THE STATE NAEP EXPERIENCE The Trial State Assessment (TSA)
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warned that higher stakes would bring inappropriate teaching to the test and inflated test scores, adding that NAEP results, so far, had been free from "this form of corruption." While this is an important concern, it should also be noted that when state standards mirror the NAEP frameworks, having schools teach the content and skills assessed by NAEP is a desirable result. Beaton (1992:14)
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Furthermore, correlations of student achievement on NAEP with data about instructional practices obtained from the background information do not imply causal relationships. For example, the 1994 NAEP reading results showed that fourth grade students who received more than 90
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While these changes could not be directly attributed to the implementation of the TSA, they reflected priorities set for the NAEP reading assessment. Additionally, many state assessment measures were expanded to include more open-ended response items, with an increased emphasis on the use of authentic texts and passages, like those found on NAEP (Hartka and Stancavage, 19941.
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points out that use of NAEP results at the district or school level has the potential to: discourage states' and districts' use of innovation in developing their own assessments; interfere with the national program with respect to test security that is, keeping items secure would be more difficult and many new items would be needed; and increase costs in order to accomplish its goals. It will be important to keep these issues in mind as districtlevel NAEP is being considered.
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The two plans, the Trial District Assessment offered in 1996 and the NaturallyOccurring District plan offered in 1998, are described below. Trial District Assessment Under the Trial District Assessment, large school districts were offered three options for participating in district-level reporting of NAEP (National Center for Educational Statistics, 1995a)
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Additional sampling of schools and students was required for Milwaukee to reach the minimum numbers necessary for participation, and they received results only for grade 8. Naturally Occurring Districts Prior to the 1998 administrations, NCES and Westat determined that there were six naturally occurring districts.
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In the cases of New York City and Chicago, the districts did not want the data although the respective states did, thereby creating a conflict. The NAEP State Network, which consists of state assessment directors or their appointed representatives, also voiced concerns about the fairness of making the data available for some districts but not others.
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